...also, if you are pulling your chest, or belting at b above middle C, I'd watch out. A good clue of whether or not your are actually mixing there or pulling chest is to see what happens at the d-e above that......if they lose a lot of "ping" as you say.......you know that something is out of balance.
I was told by my first teacher who was really focused on musical theater that anything above an A (above middle C) should be in head voice...she actually end up making me use head tone for anything above an F (above middle C) she HATED belting and said she could barely stand to hear the local civic theater group musicals because if the chest tone singing, she was VERY anti chest tone...when I first came to her it was all I had and she was really bothered by it. She often said that the people who did local musical theater always complained of being hoarse and having sore throats after a night of belting and that it was a shame they didn't know how to sing properly. To her mind belting was just bad...period. She would site a who's who of belters with nodes anytime you fell out of head tone above an A (above middle C)
Lea Ann
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